Track-by-Track: Guardrail Look Deep Inside Their Album ‘Content’

You’ll feel pretty ‘content’ checking out the latest album from Chicago diet punk band Guardrail. Officially released today via Open Your Ears Records, the twelve-track effort is the most dialed-in the band has ever been in crafting their unique sound. With their previous EP and single releases, the quintet was working hard to hash out exactly what they wanted to sound like, and on Content, they felt the freedom to explore different styles and finetune how they wanted to define themselves musically. It even features the Chicago group’s first-ever acoustic track, first love song, and first song with bassist Alyssa Laessig assuming lead vocal duties. Each member, lead singer Kevin Andrew, guitarists Ken Ugel and Xack Brame, drummer Doug Brand, and the aforementioned Laessig, really heavily c...

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